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Model Geena Rocero Discusses Trans Identity In Moving TED Talk: WATCH

As part of Monday's Transgender Visibility Day, model Geena Rocero discussed the struggles of being a transgender woman in a moving TED talk held in Vancouver.  The speech also marks the launch of the new initiative known as Gender Proud, which will, according to EdgeBoston, "work alongside the ground-breaking LGBT justice organization All Out to target countries where gender marker legislation is at a ’tipping point’. They will look to support local trans-justice organizations at the frontlines of the battle for more progressive gender marker policy."

Choice quote from the speech:

We are all assigned a gender at birth. Sometimes that assignment doesn't match our inner truth, and there needs to be a new place -- a place for self-identification.

I was not born a boy, I was assigned boy at birth. Understanding the difference between the two is crucial to our culture and society moving forward in in the way we treat -- and talk about -- transgender individuals.

Check out the inspirational video, below!

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